Part 2 of the summer reds review for Fleurieu Living

Part 1 of a 2 part episode reviewing some fabulous wines from the Southern Adelaide Hills and McLaren Vale - join us for the ride!

This is our third episode of the Fleurieu Living Wine Review.

Unfortunately, we agreed to edit this episode - this will not be happening again, Angela. After all we refused to edit for Matt Wilson.

As a result it is late - and I forgot to photograph the bottles. Which means that I now can't rescue the wine bottles to get full details of producers. I am very sorry about that to everyone - producers and listeners. We tasted:

A magnificent Mt Barker (WA) Riesling and A magnificent Mt Pleasant Hunter Valley Semillon, both of whose full identities are now lost to the vagaries of the recycling bin.

Always fun to have special guest Angela with us.

We talk a lot about food pairings. Even writing this is making me hungry.

In our second Fleurieu Living wine review, we review seven wines from Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc to McLaren Vale Chardonnay. This time we squeezed it all into one episode to meet publication deadlines! We focussed on pairing these wines with a BBQ and discovered Jake's love of accompaniments and Darren's focus on the BBQ.

The wines are:

Karrawatta 2025 ‘Anna’s’ Sauvignon Blanc, Adelaide Hills

Lake Breeze 2025 Vermentino, Langhorne Creek

Varney Wines 2024 ‘Entrada’ Vermentino, McLaren Vale

Hither and Yon 2025 Chenin Blanc, McLaren Vale

Willunga 100 2025 Grenache Blanc, McLaren Vale

Oliver’s Taranga 2025 Fiano, McLaren Vale

Battle of Bosworth 2025 Chardonnay, McLaren Vale

We posted this on early because we need the transcription from Apple to write the article!!

We have managed to come back after a break and have an accidental Semillon episode. And without a Hunter Semillon in the mix - an oversight we will have to fix.

Why did we have an accidental Semillon episode - well Darren wanted to show a David Franz Eden Edge Riesling Semillon (2021) and Jacob had a Cullen Grace Madeline Semillon Sauvignon Blanc (2024).

This is in line with our new (perhaps it will even last a while) policy of one wine at an approachable price (under $30) and one that is more aspirational (somewhat over $30).

A fun first back episode after a break caused by Darrens product launch and Jacobs running injuries! It's great to be back with SEASON 3!

Based on a listener enquiry from Becky in the UK, we got into getting started on the wine journey in wine this week. We may not have agreed on everything, but we're happy to have a go - hope we helped. We focussed on wines available in Oz and The Old Blighty.

You may not agree with our recommendations, so we are looking forward to you letting us know what you would advise. Any WINE BEEF with what we had to say will be joyously devoured. Let's throw this one about this for weeks and months. What was your first wine?

The wines we tasted this week were an interesting mix - a DOC Prosecco, Yalumba Y-series Pinot Grigio, and D'Arenberg The Custodian Grenache.

We didn't just taste, we recommended like rum should be made - boldly and without apology. The whole of the Yalumba Y-Series, Thistledown Grenache, The Kylie Minogue Wines, King Valley Prosecco. I think that's it. Oh, and talk to a specialty merchant to get your laughing gear around the spech stuff.

Join us with famous and opinionated wine photog Matt Wilson for our most chaotic episode ever. At the end, I wasn't quite sure what we had just done! Pizza and wine: we had lots of opinions, substantiated by live on-podcast research. Plus your views!!

Ceretto Dolcetta D'Alba 2023

Somos McLaren Vale Aglianico 2023

Domaine Marcel Deiss Alsace Complantantion

Watch out, this is is a long one. We really shouldn't try to do more than 2 wines.

Sweet wines Darren bought back from Germany are in our glasses - go and find some! We do talk a bit about how these are made, which is damn interesting. Other than that, the focus of the show is hard to work out. However, neither of us had stolen any bicycles recently. Oh... several mea culpas from Darren about inept use of social media.

Jacob brings some customer beef, and Darren judges it to be cold, crusty, mouldy, old stew.

The wines (all were Deutcher Prädikatswein):

Schloss Johannisberg Roslalack Riesling Auslese 2023 (Rheingau)

Flonheimer Adelberg Wolf Riesling Eiswein 2018 (Rheingau)

Scheiden Riesling Beerenauslese Goldene Preismünze 2006 (Mittelrhein)